A basement full of young adults, playing games and hanging out, then, once social time ends, they quickly get down to business – talking politics through a Christian worldview.
“Politics matter. People matter,” said Counteract USA founder and CEO, Abigail DeJarnatt. “It’s not so much that our generation has nothing to do with politics. It’s too divisive, it’s too polarizing. But what we want to counter that narrative with is if our culture is so hyper-political, how can we help but bring the Gospel, the good news, into that bad news conversation?”
For this Generation Z organization that includes conversations around tough topics like abortion, gender identity, and same-sex marriage. Counteract USA started in Arkansas in 2021 and has expanded to more than 200 members operating cell groups in six states.
“So we break down a topic like biblical marriage and we say, what does the world say that marriage is and how has our culture distorted that definition? What does the word of God have to say about that and how do we enter into the narrative, how do we change our culture to better reflect the view of God’s design for marriage?” DeJarnatt said.
The goal is evangelizing and
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